Incerts
Incerts is a social enterprise working to transform assessment in schools. Using innovative technology and an analytical approach, Incerts helps school leaders to get more than they thought possible from teacher assessment. Formally constituted as a non-profit organisation, Incerts accelerates learning and achievement in schools and reduces teachers' non-teaching workload.
Paperless APP
The individual skills that make up each National Curriculum subject, and also the Assessment Focuses of APP, are featured in the Incerts2011 online system as "ladders" that run up through the National Curriculum Levels. Teachers can see each pupil's next steps and they simply make ticks as the pupil makes progress towards them.
Precision Progress Tracking
The vast majority of schools track their pupils' progress using abc sub-levels (2c, 2b, 2a...). As teachers record against individual skills within each subject, Incerts will look at several "steps" on several "ladders" when it calculates a pupil's level. Incerts can express a pupil's progress as a "fine level", with a margin of error small enough to measure progress reliably year-on-year or even term-on-term.
Reporting of the Future
It's clear that detailed teacher assessments of individual pupils can be re-used for writing reports to their parents. Incerts goes much further, adding information about each pupil's next steps and targets for future years. Indeed, this has proved so popular with parents that some Incerts schools have started producing short mid-year reports to parents containing only these targets. Since Incerts 2011 is an online system, it only needs a few "links" to make these available to parents via the school website or Learning Platform.
Website
incerts.org
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